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OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CHANCEY, FublijheiB. UNION. OKKGOX. MISCELLANEOUS. An economist has sagely observed that, no matter how large its popula tion may become, there will always bo enough earth to go round. j A horse galloped through tho streets )f Hopkinsville, Ky., during a recent Storm, when a bolt o'f lightning struck Ids heels, tearing off both shoes, which Went Hying through tho air like blazing coals. "Ma, why docs God make it rain?" ""So tliat tho corn will grow, my little Jgirl." "Kilt why does He make it rain on tho stroots where there is no corn?" 2'ainful and protracted silence. Texas Riflings. A French instrument for ro"ording f)io rolling of a vessel at sea was lately tried on tho voyage of a steamship Trom Bordeaux to Brazil, and made a tolerably accurate register of the mo tion. Arkansaw Iravclcr. A company at Mobile aro com pelled to run their largo establishment Slight and day making staves, barrels sind boxes for shipment North. The time was when this industry was practically conlincd to the North. 1 A hinged lamp-post has lately been devised. It lias the advantage that no laddi-r is required to on nolo it to bo cleaned and repaired, and it can also lo lighted by bending it over, tho lamp lighter carrying a key for the purpose. Kldcrly Spinster (in drug store) "I declare to goodness I've forgot wliat 3 come in fer! An' it was on my tongue's end jest a minnit ago." Clerk (trying to help her oi't) "Er face powder, ma'am, or hair dye, or or " (Exit Kldcrly Spinster.) Harper's liazur. A Virginia paper reiaics mat a whito handkerchief folded in four layers was placod over the face of a -woman who died lately in Louisa County, and when it was removed there were four distinct pictures of her on it tho si.o of a epinrter of a dollar. Spirits of camphor hud been put on the "woman's face just before her death. (t was a Ciico, Cal., boy, aged ten years, who "held up" his stepfather Tvilh a six-shooter when tho latter attempted to give him his regular allow unco of blaeksnako whip. Tho boy remained on tho front porch until tho ntcpfat her brought an ofilcor, and read ily gave up the revolver to tho latter and accompanied him to the station. A Chicago man entering a drug store in that city recently asked to have small scalp-wound dressed. He stated that he waa crossing a railroad bridge when ho was ovei taken by a train, lie laid down on the ties and tho train passed over him doing him no harm ivitli tho exception of tho wound on his head. in a small town out West nn ox- county judgo is cashier of tho bank "The check is all rigid, sir," ho said to -n stranger, "but the evidence you olVer an identifying yourself as the person to whoso order it is drawn is scarcely suf- jicicui. i ve Known you to nang a jnan on less evidence, judge" was the stranger's response. "Quito likely," replied the ox-judge, "but when itcomcs to letting go of cold cash, we have to bo careful." Two lads who worked a neat swind ling net wero tripped up in Chicago tho othor day. J hoy dealt in stolen logs, and while ono was out "finding canines that wero not lost," tho other "would bo restoring tho Ixjoty of tho pro- Tious day to tho owners, and receive tho reward offered through tho news papers. When captured, tho young sters had eighty odd dogs on hand. A (ierman naturalist has dovoted a a great deal of study to the violet, and Jias given us a very pretty biography f her. Tho violot droops her head, he lolls us, to protect tho honey from tho j-ain; she surrounds it witli hairs to lccop out tho iuquisitivo littl'i ants, who would run away with it, and, having no wing or hairs upon their tiny bodies, would not help to convey the pollen to other blossoms. A Pittsburgh merchant, as an ad vertisement, offered a prize of $20 to tho tlrst person solving the following prob lem: Take these figures, 1, 2, ,'), t, o, 6, 7, 8, 9. 0, add them togother and mko 100 without using any ilguro Imico. There were a groat many an nwerp, but tho only correct one received -was sent in by a young lady, and was s follows: oO'a 100 Tho Pittsburgh Stockman calls at tention to churning by staling that if tho cream be made too warm the globules -wil burst and the oil mingle with tho -water in tho cream and rlso to tho top. finch cream will como to butter very slowly, If it como at all. Iloillng water is too hot to uso in the cream; Cti 3 is as warm as the cream should bo made, as tho butter will be white and soft. Keep tho cream as uoar CO3 as possible while waiting for tho churn. The description of a German inven tion a safe that on its lock being tam pered with, opens its doors, seizes, lragn and locks in tho burglar, and liolds him in readiness to be conducted to tho police court in tho morning is characterized as a wild tale by tho New York Tribune. It is said to bo a fact, liowevcr, tliat a similar device, to bo set At tho door of a shop or bank, was invented in England. Hut, on tho prin ciple that no niun has a right to take tho law into his own hands, its manu facture was forbidden. Boston 7Vm- PRESERVING BODIES. How TliU Wan Dime hr tlin 1'nnptn of Alnftkn nml Htlil'iplu. In Alaska up to comparatively mod crn times the dead have been mummi lied. Mr. W. II. Dall, in his recent work on tho Northwest Const, tell us that within the last half century bodies have been eviscerated, cleansed from fatty matters in running waters dried and nlaeed in cases, wrapped in fur and woven grasses. The body was usually doubled up into the smallest compass and tho muminy-caso stis ponded, so as not to touch the ground, in some convenient rock shelter. Some times, however, the prepared body was placed in a life-like position, dressed and armed. Some wero made to look as if engaged in a congenial occupa tion, such as hunting, fishing, sewing, etc. With them were also placed effigies of the animals they wcrepursu ing, while the hunter was decked in his wooden armor and provided with an enormous mask, all ornamented with feathers and a countless variety of wooden pendants, colored in gay pat terns. All tho Alaskan mummies wear masks, so arranged that the wearer, if erect, could only see the ground at his feet. J heso were also worn at their re ligious dances, from the belief that the spirit which was supposed to animate a temporary idol was fatal to whoever might look upon it while so occupied. Probably an extension of this idea led to the masking of those who. had gone to tho land of spirits, and may also account for the silver masks found tho other day upon the Aztec mummies in Arizona." To tliis day the Aleutian Islanders embalm their dead with dried grass and moss, burying them in their best attire, in a sitting posture, and decorat ing tho tomb with colored mat-, em broidery, and painting. With women they use much less eeroinoity. A mother will keep hoi; dead child thus imperfectly embalmed in her own hut for months, washing it continually, till at bust the intolerable stench reconciles her to parting with it. While on this gruesome subject it may be mentioned, merely as a matter of curiosity, that Cary's translation of Herodotus describes the novel manner in which the Macrobii Ethiopians pre served their dead. He says that their sepulehers wero all prepared from crystal. Their mode was as follows; When the body had been dried, after tho fashion of tho Egyptians, . tlioy plastered it all over with gypsum and then painted it to resemble life as nearly as possible. Then they pntdt into a hollow column of crystal, which was easily wrought and could bo dug up in abundance thereabouts. Tho laxly, being in tho middle of the trans parent column, was plainly to be seen, and it did not emit an unpleasant odor or become in any way offensive. The nearest relative kept the column in his house for a year or more, offering to it die first fruits and making sacrifices before it, after which time it, was car ried out and placed somewhere near tho city. This appears to have been an improvement on the mode above described, for even the Egyptian mum mies could only be seen in front, tho back having been covered hv a box or collln, while the Ethiopian bodies, suuir in their columns of glass, could be seen all around. I'hiladelphia llceord. AMERICAN DENTISTS. Tlirlr KnpiTlorlly ttvr tlio Tontli-Tlnkrn of tho Old World. There aro no people like tho Ameri cans for having their mouths kept in oilier. No one else is willing to pay what our people do for their work, con sequently they don't get such good work done. l.met an English surgeon yesterday who said: "I will admit that there is one tiling you excel us in, and tliat is dentistry. Our people have their teeth extracted when they pain them, hut they haven't tho patience to get them stopped with gold, as you do it over here, nor will thev submit to the enor mous expense necessary to gold stop ping. Why, tho housemaids in Amer ica have enough gold in their mouths to astonish a Duchess." A lady from tho United States, trav eling in England, had occasion to visit a dental ollleo. Ah soon as the man looked in her mouth ho said: "You come from iVmerica." "How do you know?" asked tho lady. "Why, no one else has gold in their teeth like tills." Needing some work done, slio was amazed to lind that the dentist lacked some of tho most necessary instru ments fora simple gold tilling. Some English ladles "stop ' their own teeth with a sort of cement furnished by tho druggist. Hritishers who have once had work done here will travel three hundred miles to reach an American dentist, and so great lias our fame in that line become that young men come, to Philadelphia and Ann rbor and Cincinnati to learn tho art, and going hack, charge immensely and get a handsome practice. lhero is in Paris a doctor from a sin al town in Indiana who has amassed a great lortune uy dentistry, ami wiuo appointments date four or live months in advance, He can't speak a word of French, and transacts all his busi ness through an interpreter. In dentistry the French show some lack of their usual spirit of premiership, though they do better dental work than any other foreign people. San Francisco J'ost. "Beef's all gone, sir," said tho waiter. "Gimme mutton." "Mutton's all gone, sir." "Well, have you tiny un-gono eraqkers and clieeso? Fetch theiiil" NEEDLES AND PINS.' History of Tlirlr Mtiiiiilncttiro In KnRlnnri hikI Mm Hulled Hmtr. Needles were no doubt contempora neous with the very beginnings of civil ization, as they wero necessary for the fashioning of even tho rudest skin gar ments. In their earliest form they were probably only strong thorns or splinters of wood, bone or stone, for puncturing holes through which to draw the thread. The next stop was to make an eye in the splinter, that it might carry the thread at the same time that it pierced the skin; and some very finely finished and pol ished needles made of splints of bone have been found in prehistoric remains, Pronzo needles havo been found in Egyptian tombs that must havo been made several thousand years before the Christian era, and similar implements are known to havo been in use by the Chinese, Hindoos, Chaldeans, Assyri ans and other ancient nations at very early periods in their history. The steel needle is believed to havo been first made in Spain. It is known tliat these needles were manufactured at several places in Europe as early as the fourteenth century. In tiic reign of Queen Elizabeth a German came to England and taught the art of making line Spanish needles, but for many years the art was kept as tho secret of a few persons. Great improvements were made in this manufacture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centur ies, and now the English needles large ly supply the world. They arc princi pally made at Rcdditch, near Birniing Iiain, and neighboring villages, where over ten thousand ou-sotis are employed m the work, lhero are some needles of good quality made in the United States, but tlicv are of but little im portance compared to tho imported needles. Pins are also of very ancient manufacture. They were made at first of ivory, bone or wood splints, but bronze pins aro found in Egyptian tombs, and also those of silver and 'old. The ancient Romans had metal pins also, ami so had other na tions. Thev were made with ornamented heads, and from one to eight inches long. The small pin. as wo know it, was a more modern inven tion. In England the manufacture of pins was established about t lie middle of the thirteenth century, for in 1 -ISii we find a statute was passed prohibit ing the importation of foreign pins in tho interest of home manufactures. Brass pins were brought from Franco in loll), anil woro said to have been first used by Catherine Howard, Queen of Henry VIII. hi Gloucester tho business of pin-making was begun in 1(2(, and soon became of great im portance. It was established in Lou don in 1 (i.'Ki, and later in Birmingham, which became the chief seat of this and other manufacturing operations. In tho United States no cllbrt was made at pin-making until the war of 1811?, when tlie interruption of commerce had raised tho price of these useful little articles to ono dollar a paper. At tho old State prison, in what was then called Greenwich village now a part of New York- City the first at tempts in pin-making were made in Bcllovuo Almshouse in 18:20. but both trials were given up as failures. Mean while, one Lemuel W. Wright, of Massachusetts, had invented some inn- hinery to cheapen and improve pin manufacture. Not finding a sulllcicut qiening for his plan in this country, he took his machinery to London ami had it patented there in 1821. Tho first at tempts witli these machines did not succeed, but by means of improve ments success was achieved, and solid headed pins were put on tho market about 18!!.'). In 18.'t2 machines made by John I. Howe, of New York, were patented in the United States. These were the first self-acting machines that really succeeded. At first they made the wire head, then the Solid head. The Howe Pin Company was estab lished at Birmingham, C onn, in 1S.H8. Another largo factory was established at Ponghkeepsie, N. Y., about the. same tune, and this was finally con solidated witli a pin com pa 113 of Waterbury, Mass., which still con tinues to carry on the manufacture on an enormous scale. Vhicatjo Inter Ocean. The World's Steam Vessols. Tho number of steamers existing in tho world last year was estimated at 9,9(59, of an aggregate burthen of 10,- 531,8 til tons. I he corresponding num ber of steamers existing in tho world in 1885 was estimated at 9,012, of an Aggregate burthen of 1 (Villi, I'll tons, l'he total of 9,909 steamers, represent ing the world's steam shipping in 1880, was made up as follows: Iron steam ers, 8,198, of an aggregate burthen of 8,911,100 tons; steel steamers, 770, of an aggregate burthen of l,'J0G,tli2 tons; ompo.site steamers, 109, of an aggre gate burthen of il'J.S'.'O tons, ami wooden touniors, 8-2, of an aggregate burthen of !kS0,0.')o ton-. Of the steamers afloat in 1885, 0,792 were owned by the United Kingdom and its colonies their aggregate burthen being l,.V.).r,87l tons. The oilier countries of the world owned steamers as follows last, year: Ger many, OT9; France, .'109; Spain, -101 ; tho United States, -100; Norway, 287; Rus sia, 212; Denmark, 200; Italy, 173; Hoi laud, 152; Brazil, Ml; Japan, 105; Greece anil Turkey, 82 each; Belgium, 08; Chill and tho Argentine Republic, i:t each; China and Portugal, 27 each; Hawaii, 21; Mexico, 15, and miscellan eous, 50. it will be seen that, notwith standing the great depression prevail ing in steam shipping, the number of steamers atloat last year increased to the extent of 827 as compared with 1885. V. r. lt. It Is estimated that thoro nro ovor 700.000 Poles in the United Status. DECLINE OF HOSPITALITY. Tlio Tliroo Cnturn Which Thrrnten Its Kxtlnrtloii In Cltlr and Town. First, the enormous increase of travel; second, the pressure of occupa pation, and third, tho growing expen siveness of living, especially in tlio great centers. The passion for travel which has de veloped in all countries, b'lt most hero in America, makes people unwilling to keep up a complicated establishment which must be shut up or left to run itself when the proprietor takes his. winter trip to Florida, or his summer jaunt to Norway. Eacli year, there fore, increases the number of pcoplo who prefer to live in a hotel, or an apartment, with the fewest possible servants. This at once becomes a hand icap on hospitality, since the coming of a guest implies an immediate upheaval of the routine of living. A young married man was recently looking over tiio plan of a flat which ho was considering for a future homo, when a friend at his elbow remarked. "But it gives you no guest room." "Exactly so," was the cynical response, "that is why I have decided to take it." Tiie statement may sceui brutal, but it is a fact patent to all, that to keep open house in New York is to keep a railroad hotel. The strain upon tlio nervous vitality of t lie host, and especially the hostess, would bo enor mous, even if it wero their only occu pation; but that it seldom is. Never, perhaps, in tlio history of the world has the pressure on the vitality, the time and the nerves of men and women been so great as it is to- lay. How can a woman sit down to c iini enjoyment of a visit, when she i '-launted by tlio ghosts of unwritten 1 iieis, iinreturned calls and unread hooi.s; not to mention such prosaic specters as undarncd stock ings and uncared-for children. These duties may be put aidc for one guent, but when the circle been'ues unending, they grow with impo--ihilitics. The strain upon the man of the house is al most as great. Ho returns from a day's work at the ofiice, which leaves every n.irve throbbing with irritation. Ho is lit for nothing but dressing-sack, pipe and slippers before tho fire, or a resting nap on the sofa. Instead, he is requested to hurry oil' to meet his wife's cousins or still worse, his own, who are to arrive at the Grand Central Station from Da kota at 7:!t0. Their arrival delays the dinner-hour, tlieieby adding indigestion to his oilier troubles. So long as the expenses of living fall well within tho income, hospitality is comparatively easy, but the moment there is any difficulty in meeting the monthly bills, a visitor is actually dreaded. The small family economics must cither be put nMile and tin; finan cial problem allowed to grow still moro complicated, or they must be made pain fully apparent when contrasted with the aggressive abundance which riots in the streets about. How true is tlio saying that New York belongs to tlio very rich and tho very poor! For tho modest income there seems to be 110 abiding place in New York. Then the opportunities which, as country people fancy, make it so easy to entertain visitors in New York, are in reality so many unceasing calls for expenditure. Tho concert, the theater and the opera are not, as a rule, gratuitous entortaiu nien'is. Epoch. STORY OF A JAW. Tho DiNtiuiro Wlilrli It Will Travel In tlio Coiitho of 11 Mini' 1.1ft. , The noon-day customers were drop ping out one by one troin the .National yesterday when a dyspeptic-looking man. who sat at the next table and had been watching with great solicitude a seedy-looking individual who had evi dcntlv come from tiio Missouri flats to attend the show, startled Ids neighbor by saving: "Have you any idea how niaiiv miles a man s jaw will travel m the course of his life, assuming tliat lie lives to be seventy years of age." "Well, I never thought of it," an swered a young man, who halted in Ids wild career of heofs'oak. Ihoihspep tie man changed his seat and exposed a much soiled piece of paper with some figures on it, which lie proceeded to explain: For tho first 10 years a child's jaw will go about 55 inches daily or 200,750 inches altogether in a decade. From his tenth to Ids twentieth year, what witli chewing gum, food and tobacco, lie will work his jaws say four hours a lay, at an average of half an inch per minute; that would make 111 a day 12 J inches, or in tho 10 years 438,000 indies. During this time he will talk about fivo hours a day, traversing about three-quarters of an inch a mill uto with his jaw; that would give, in 10 years, 822,250 incites to be added to our former liguros. "For tlio next 45 years ho will spend say 00 minutes a day in eating, when he will open his mouth half an inch a minute ami seven hours in talking, when he will average live-eighths of an inch; that is, when you figure it out, 5,008,025 inches. "We now havo our man 05 years old. For the last fivo years his jaw takes a rest. He will oat no more than 31) minutes a day at one-half inch a min ute, or 27,ol5 inches, anil in talking the distance traveled will not amount to more than 1138,500 inches. Now for the total, if wo add the various sums together, we get 0,835,470 inches, and dividing bv 03,300, the number of inches iu a mile, you lind that tho maxillary journey is a distance of 107 miles and a fraction." "That is certainly interesting," said tlio young man. "Havo you over cal culated the santo lip-trip for a woman?" "Mv dear bov, came tho slow, sad reply, "life is too short. "Leavenworth fAuiyl Times. CHINESE AILMENTS. Dj-npejula tlin Mont Prevalent In the Long I.lnt of Ilri-. Medical work in tho capital of China docs not differ very much from the or dinary run of practice in any largo city of the United States. Owing to tlio healthfiilni'ts of tho climate the na tives, a a rule, enjoy very good health. By far the most frequent cases that come to the dispensary arc those re lating to the digestive tract. Ono who has ever seen the Chinese cat will not wonder at this. A bowl of food is placed under the chin and the contents scoopeti into the mouth witli most as tonishing rapidity, Tho process is re peated until bowlful after bowlful has disappeared, the only limit as to quan tity seemingly being the amount which can be got hold of. The poorer classes depend chiefly on rice for food, getting the necessarj' nitrogenous elements not from meat, but from a curd made from beans. On this simple diet it is astonishing what an amount of work a coolie will do. Hence, both rapidity of eating and the quantity consumed tend to produce all the forms of distress after meals, that are classed under the head of dyspepsia. In fact, tlio Chinaman whose "heart's-mouth" has never pained is seldom to bo met with. This "heart's mouth" is a favorite locality witli tho Chinese as a seat of disease. The native doctors know nothing of the dissection of the human body, and their notion of its construction and operations is based chiefly on the im agination. To tiie Chineso anatomist everything below tho skin is a "terra incognita." The brain lie puts iu the stomach, the scat of courage is iu the liver, tlio bladder communicates di rectly with tlio mouth by a tube into which all liquids nwallowed lind their their way. while a lioleiu tho heart lias some mysterious relations with the stomach, and to this orifice is ascribed much of the pain consequent on indi gestion. In tins connection I must, not fail to speak of "worms." This is not an at tractive subject to the general reader, but an important one to study up for any one expecting to practice medicine in China. The native, be lie rich or poor, young or old, who does not har bor specimens of the tieuia or bumbri coides would, if the facts were known, be a living curiosity to Ids astonished countrymen. There is also a great deal of dysentery in summer, mainly due to eating unripe fruit. Tlio other day a neighbor came in and got some medicine for ids wife, who had had this trouble for several days. I told him not to allow Ids bet ter half to eat any fruit, and he promised to pay attention to this to him unnecessary restriction. After a da' or so the man came iu again, and complained that the patient was not any better. He said she had been very careful of her diet, and had eaten noth ing but watermelon. Medical Mission ary llceord. HOW TO GAIN BEAUTY. Tlio Cliiirm of livery Woman's Knee Lying In Hh Ktprt'HKlon. "It is useless," said an ugly, charm ing woman lately, "to toll girls that beauty is but skiu-deep.or to underrate its value to them. They know that the beautiful woman has tiie same advan tage iu life as the princess. All heads uncover to her on sight, without regard to her merit." "Brains and morality," wroto a French cynic, "are the chief goods of lite, doubtless; but a bcauutul race is undeniably in itself a power." A young girl is apt to overrate its power. If she lias it, she too often be comes vain, and her self-consciousness sliltons the mobile features, gives an uneasy blink to the eye, and sets a silly smirk upon the mouth. If she is not born with beauty, she tries anxiously to simulate it by efforts which make her ridiculous. In some parts of this coun try almost every young girl smears her face with chalk, which completely con ceals the skin. In others tho hair is entirely hidden beneath false, kinky "fronts." Iu both cases there is. no attempt at deeoption. Tlio spectator is openly invited to look, not at a natural beauty, but at something which was bought from tho barber or tho druggist. Other women use arsenic for the purpose of obtaining a pearly whiteness of skin. Tho prominent phy sicians in Now York call attention to the frightfully rapid spread of this custom among the uneducated classes. Ono of them says: "Tiie cause of tho transparent whiteness of the skin is that tho ends of tho blood-vessels are killed. Tho arsonic also destroys tho action of tho kidneys, and inevitably brings on a fatal disease of tlio diges tivo organs." Tlio Companion will not attempt to porsunde its girl readers that beauty is not a desirable thing, anil worth an ellbrt to obtain; but it does urgo them to find out, first, what beauty really is, and secondly, what practicable moans will command it for them. Regularity of feature no otl'ort will gain for them, but some of tho most beautiful women in tho word havo pot possessed it. A lillio figure and free grace of move ment may bo acquired by loosely fitting garments, shoes made to fit the foot as nature formed it, and exercise in the open air. A clear, vivid comploxioii is the sign and result of daily bathing, out-door exercise, and plain, healthful food. Tho chief beauty in every woman's faco lies, after all, in Its ex pression, which mirrors tlio sincerity, tho gontleuess, the intelligence within, "Hor face," says Lovett, "was the benediction to tlio world, coming from her true and tender soul." That beauty every woman can gain by a pure and loving life. Youth's Companion. OF GENERAL INTEREST. Kentucky has a banana fiend who recently ate thirty-four bananas in 0110 hour. Unless he is careful whero ho throws the skins lie will havo much to answer for. Alice M. Longfellow, daughter of the poet, has been chosen a member of tlie school committee of Cambridge. She is also one of the trustees of tho Harvard Annex. Prince, a lino Jersey bull belonging to a joint stock company, created a sensation one day last week at Talla hassee by deliberately killing a cow. It is said tliat lie lifted her on ids horns, threw her into tlie air, and killed her almost instantly. Even fo people who have made their fortunes, or havo attained so much property that they aro quite easy as to tlie future, the dead town lias no attractions. The evidence of deca dence can never lie attractive.- " A natural curiosity exists in Fay ette County, hid., known as Shaky Hill. It comprises about twelve acres, and is occasionally subject to tremu lous movements affecting several acres of land. Tliis phenomena is said to havo been noticed for fifty-seven years. A man lias been selling patent churns to the Maine farmers, taking in payment notes payable on demand and made "not transferable," and pledging himself not to demand pay ment within a certain long period. Then lie changed the not to note, and sold the notes, and tlie farmers were called upon to pay up. George 1). Ash, livingnoarllagers town, Mil., is engaged in quarrying stone on his farm, using dynamite for tlie purpose. A steer belonging to Mr. Ash strayed into tlie quarry, and, find ing tlie dynamite cartridge, ato it. The dynamite proved unwholesome diet, exploding and bursting tlio ani mal. The Savannah Xcirs perpetrates the following: A lady at Indian spring lias a hen that is quite a curiosity. It lias a coat of hair iu place of feathers. Although it is only a chicken, still it is a wonderful freak of nature. It came from a llock of ordinary chickens, and the cause of its singular coat is a mys tery. It lays, sits and hatches like other chickens, and some of its oil spring is like tlie parent, but she lias not yet succeeded in bringing them to maturity. From Franco comes tlie announce ment of a iiewly-iiivented rotary print ing machine, which is said to print, superpose and fold publications from two rolls of paper, if so desired. Suit able devices are provided there are four cutting and folding cylinders, two of which cut and fold tho sheets from one roll, while the other two operate upon the remaining one. Each of tho two pairs of cylinders are, however, capable independently of cutting and folding the sheets I'ublic Opinion. The Roman Catholi-j authorities of Boston are planning to establish ono great common vcmctery for all the cities in adjacent parts of the State, to which the railroads are expected to run special funeral trains daily, the cars going directly into tlio grounds and all expense of carriages being done away witli, tho undertaker carrying the body to the station, the city and the railroad landing it at tlie grave. The Boston & Lowell railroad is said to be ready to run funeral trains at reduced rates if. such a cemetery is established. In Mex ico they have special funeral cars over the horse-car routes to the cemeteries. The history of the toothpick in this country lias a few curious and interest ing features. Not many years ago iv man iu South America, whoso wife was in tlie United States, whittled out a fow wooden toothpic! and sent them to her. In some way not now known tho pro prietor of a hotel obtained some of them and, learning who made them, ho applied for a supply. This led to a largo sale of tho whittled picks and finally to the establishment of an agency for their sale in this country. Tlie toothpick manemigratcd North and invented ma chinery by which ho turned out the first year sixteen million two hundred and fifty thousand picks, which has since in creased to above lu4, number per month. FAULTLESS FAMILY MEDICINE n have nsed Simmons XJver Regulator for many years, hay ing made It my only Family Medicine. My mother before me was very partial to it. It Is n safe, good and reliable medi cine for nny disorder of tho system, and If used In time Is a oretxt prrvrutlve of- lUkntMa. I often recommond It to my friends, and shall continue to do so. "Rev. James M. Rollins, " Pastor M. EXhurch, So. Fairfield .Va." TIME AND DOCTORS' BILLS SAVED by aliraun Ueetttna Simmon JUver Itvuttlator in the house. "I have found Simmons IJver Regulator the best family med icine I ever used for anything that may happen, have used H In Jmiigratlon, ColirIlarrhtrt, milousufsi, and found it to re lieve Immediately.' After eat ing a hearty supper, if, on going to bed, I take about a teas poo 11 ful, I never feel the effects of the supper eaten. "own a. sparks, "Ex-Mayor Macon, Qa." -ONLY GENUINE" ITm our Z Stamp on front of Wrapper. J. . Zeilln & Co., Sola Proprietors I'rice, 1.00. 1'UILADELTinA, VS.